The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1890 – 1930
Rural China in the province of Anhwei and Kiangsu
Later the city of Nan King
Themes Life-sustaining bond of human beings to the land,
Importance of family as the central unit of society
Class conflict
The place of women in traditional society On the birth of their daughter “It is only a slave this time — not worth mentioning," Wealth as destroyer of traditional values
How the lack of traditional values can be the downfall of a family.
The Boxer Rebellion (1900) and Reforms of the Early 1900’s Boxer Rebellion – a Chinese secret society, the *Righteous Uniting Band, that in
1900 attempted by violence to drive foreigners out of China and to force Chinese
converts to Christianity to renounce their faith (*the Chinese words were
mistranslated as “Righteous Uniting Fists,” and members became known in
western papers as the Boxers) http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html
The 1911 Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen Sun Yat-sen – a Westernized Chinese revolutionary who had first tried to
overthrow the Ch’ing in an abortive coup attempt in 1895, leader of the1911
Revolution and often referred to as “The Father of the Revolution”
1890 – 1930
Rural China in the province of Anhwei and Kiangsu
Later the city of Nan King
Themes
Life-sustaining bond of human beings to the land,
Importance of family as the central unit of society
Class conflict
The place of women in traditional society
On the birth of their daughter “It is only a slave this time — not worth mentioning,"
Wealth as destroyer of traditional values
How the lack of traditional values can be the downfall of a family.
Traditional Society and Culture
http://www.country-studies.com/china/traditional-society-and-culture.html
China Country Studies
http://www.country-studies.com/china/
Ch’ing dynasty (Qing) – a Manchu dynasty in China that lasted from 1644 until 1912,
the last imperial dynasty
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/CHING.HTM
Timeline – look for Qing Dynasty http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html
Confucius The Sayings
http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/confucius.html
Confucius
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/
Maps http://www.chinapage.com/map/map.html
The Boxer Rebellion (1900) and Reforms of the Early 1900’s
Boxer Rebellion – a Chinese secret society, the *Righteous Uniting Band, that in
1900 attempted by violence to drive foreigners out of China and to force Chinese
converts to Christianity to renounce their faith (*the Chinese words were
mistranslated as “Righteous Uniting Fists,” and members became known in
western papers as the Boxers)
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html
The 1911 Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen – a Westernized Chinese revolutionary who had first tried to
overthrow the Ch’ing in an abortive coup attempt in 1895, leader of the1911
Revolution and often referred to as “The Father of the Revolution”